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C: The Subjunctive with لِ
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The subjunctive as a concept in grammar refers, in general, to that which is uncertain or related to emotion. Often it is used for things…
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B: Commands – Forms I and II: Sound, Hollow, Defective, Doubled, and Negative
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Form II Commands are as much fun to give people in Arabic as they are in other languages. Arabic commands are not quite…
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A: Form II Verbs: Sound, Hollow, Assimilated, Doubled, and Defective
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We leave Form I verbs (at least for a while) and come now to the first group of what are called “derived” verbs. As noted…
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G: كانَ
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The verb يكون ,كانَ. is a Form I hollow verb which conjugates exactly like يَزورُ , زارَ Therefore, the conjugations for this verb for the…
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F: لَيْسَ
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لَيْسَ is a verb which gives American students fits. I believe the reason for this is that the verb is introduced to students too early…
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E: Doubled Verbs, Form I: Jussive of Doubled Verbs
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Now we come to the last category of Form I verbs. These are verbs whose second and last radical are the same consonant. In such…
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D: Assimilated Verbs, Form I
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This section deals with verbs whose first radical is a waaw. These verbs are often referred to as assimilated verbs because the waaw assimilates to…
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C: Defective Verbs, Form I: Present Tense and Jussive
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American students generally consider defective verbs to be the most difficult verbs in the language to master. Furthermore, although defective Forms II-X are simpler than…
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B: Hollow Verbs, Form I: Present Tense and Jussive
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You have now learned how to deal with Form I verbs in both tenses as well as how to produce the jussive. Up to this…
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A: Sound Verbs, Form I: The Jussive
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You have already learned the past tense for sound, Form I verbs. In this section you will learn the imperfect indicative (present tense) and jussive…
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E: The Preposition لِ Meaning “belonging to”
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لِ has another meaning in addition to “to.” It is used to mean “to belong to.” Normally, when we want to say the Arabic equivalent…
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D: Prepositions with Pronoun Suffixes
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Well, guess what. Those same pronoun suffixes which we have used for possession (non-demonic) and as direct object pronouns can also be written with prepositions.…
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